(30-09-2016 11:11 PM)Ash Wrote: My oldest daughter got her interim reports in. She did well in everything except science, which she only has a 48% in. I was like "Okay, I need to call your teacher and see what's going on." Turns out... the teacher gives them 0's for future assignments until they do them. Which is so stupid, it makes me want to hit something. Why would you calculate grades that way? I'm glad I didn't overreact and ground my daughter for a grade that's not her fault. It's just so stupid. 0 should NOT be a placeholder. Her teacher seems to think it's a 'great idea'.

Going through school myself and having three grown kids, I have encountered teachers doing some really stupid things. This is way, way at the top of my list now...unbelievable. I would have literally been beaten for bringing home a grade like that. No question in my mind about that because I was beaten for much better grades than that. Good grief.

See here they are the bruises some were self-inflicted and some showed up along the way. - JF

(30-09-2016 09:10 PM)yakherder Wrote: Back to the grind. Had a few days off, tonight I start the first of eight consecutive twelve hour shifts from midnight to noon.

First night of a string of overnights is always a caffeine heavy shift

I know that feeling. Back in '86-'87, I had an assignment where I worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for three months. I finally rebelled, and told management that I was going to work it, but was taking every other Sunday off. Which I did for the remaining 6 months of the program. But I didn't have to put up with lawbreakers (technically speaking).

The inmates make for better conversation than I'd find working in a cubical.

(30-09-2016 11:11 PM)Ash Wrote: My oldest daughter got her interim reports in. She did well in everything except science, which she only has a 48% in. I was like "Okay, I need to call your teacher and see what's going on." Turns out... the teacher gives them 0's for future assignments until they do them. Which is so stupid, it makes me want to hit something. Why would you calculate grades that way? I'm glad I didn't overreact and ground my daughter for a grade that's not her fault. It's just so stupid. 0 should NOT be a placeholder. Her teacher seems to think it's a 'great idea'.

(30-09-2016 11:11 PM)Ash Wrote: My oldest daughter got her interim reports in. She did well in everything except science, which she only has a 48% in. I was like "Okay, I need to call your teacher and see what's going on." Turns out... the teacher gives them 0's for future assignments until they do them. Which is so stupid, it makes me want to hit something. Why would you calculate grades that way? I'm glad I didn't overreact and ground my daughter for a grade that's not her fault. It's just so stupid. 0 should NOT be a placeholder. Her teacher seems to think it's a 'great idea'.

Maybe that teacher has a degree in education, with a minor in science. I can easily see this happening, unfortunately. Reporting fractional progress based on actual performance is the expected method, at least for the time I've been in the educational system (16 years plus post-baccalaureate work). Not some cockamamie system that has an expected end value, as you have seen. Good for you for not being an intercontinental ballistic dad before finding out the facts.